Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One Introduction -- John, LXX, and MT -- Major Theories for the Citation of Zechariah 12:10 in John 19:37 -- An Independent Non-Septuagint Rendering -- A Forceful Accommodation -- Another Version such as Theodoret or Theodotion -- An Edited or Corrected Version of the Old Greek -- A Testimonia Source -- A Standard Christian Version -- Affinities with Hebrew -- The Possibility of R -- Purpose of this Study -- John and R -- Methodology -- Chapter Two Life Setting of the Fourth Gospel -- Dating -- The Birkat ha-Minim and the Centrality of Torah -- The Johannine Community and Controversy with Judaism -- The Audience and Purpose of the Fourth Gospel -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three John's Use of the Jewish Scriptures -- Proclamation of Christ -- From Signs to Passion -- John Follows Contemporary Practice in Citing the Scriptures -- Specific Scriptures Used in the Johannine Passion Narrative -- Intertextuality -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four The Textual History of Zechariah -- Introductory Matters -- Zechariah 1-8 -- Zechariah 9-14 -- Unity of Zechariah -- Zechariah and the Book of the Twelve -- The Hebrew Text of Zechariah -- An Urtext for Zechariah? -- Standardisation of the Hebrew Text -- Extant Textual Evidence -- The Greek Text of Zechariah -- The Greek Translation of the Book of the Twelve -- Earliest Extant Textual Evidence for the Twelve: 8ḤevXIIgr -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five A Text-Critical Review of Zechariah 12:10 -- Goal of the Text-Critical Exercise -- lxx Translation Technique in Zechariah -- Defining Translation Technique -- The Importance of Translation Technique -- Septuagint Faithfulness -- Translation of (2ze`av(B by (Ssapxrmuάx}u(B -- An Analysis of Hapax Legomena in the Twelve -- "Evasive Renderings" or "Pseudo-Variants" -- Distinct Vorlage, "Mistranslation," or a "Wrongly Read" Text.

Translation Technique of Zechariah Twelve -- Translation of the Hebrew Verb (2xwc(B in Zechariah -- Summary of Translation Technique -- Text-Critical Issues Regarding Zechariah 12:10 -- Verb (2eKhDaKDdGe(B-"And they will look" -- Preposition (2il`(B-"To . . ." -- Particle (2z`(B-Sign of the Direct Object -- Comparing (2x(B (2`(B (2z`(B and ἀ(Spk᾽(B ὧ(Sp(B -- Verb (2exwc(B-"They pierced" -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six John's Scriptural Citations -- Introduction -- Verbatim lxx Citations -- John and the lxx -- Confluence of John, lxx, and mt Tradition in Verbatim Citations -- John and the Hebrew -- Agreement of John with lxx in Contrast to mt -- Conclusion -- Quotation with Minimal Variance from lxx -- Compressed Language from Immediate Context -- Key-word Insertion -- John's Editorial and Exegetical Activity -- Relevance of Hexapla Fragments -- Conclusion -- lxx Quotation with Multiple Word Variation -- Possible Citation of an Alternative Text -- Hexapla Fragments for Zechariah 9:9 -- Possible Citation of an Alternative Textual Tradition -- Testimonia Collections -- John and the Twelve -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven Textual Tradition Used for the Citation of Zechariah 12:10 in John 19:37 -- The Text of John 19:37 Compared to Hebrew Textual Traditions -- A Retroversion of John 19:37 -- Comparison of John 19:37 with Greek Textual Evidence and other Ancient Versions -- The Relationship of John 19:37 to Other NT References -- Second-Century c.e. Revisions -- Other Ancient Textual Evidence -- Comparison of John's Citation with R -- Major Theories for John 19:37 Considered in Relationship to R -- An Independent Non-Septuagint Rendering -- A Forceful Accommodation -- Another Version such as Theodoret or Theodotion -- An Edited or Corrected Version of the Old Greek -- A Testimonia Source -- A Standard Christian Version -- Affinities with Hebrew -- The Possibility of R -- Conclusion.

Chapter Eight Conclusion -- Some Implications that Follow from this Study -- Authorship of the Fourth Gospel -- The Audience of the Fourth Gospel -- Johannine Interpretation -- The Meaning of 19:37 for Johannine Theology -- Zecharian "Bookends" and the Context of II Zechariah -- Relationship to the Purpose of the Fourth Gospel -- Relationship to Selected Themes of the Fourth Gospel -- Selected Bibliography -- Indices.

In The Fourth Gospel and the Scriptures, Bynum presents new insights from ancient biblical manuscripts 4QXII and the Minor Prophets Scroll that help unlock the mystery of John's unique form of scriptural citation.

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